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Arthur Russell
ReleaseProduct
Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come In and Out (Live 12/20/85)
Label
Audika Records
Catalogue Number
AU-1028
Release Date
March 28, 2025
  • Vinyl 2×LP

    $39.49
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    RT0542LP

    • Side four includes two instrumental tracks from the previously unreleased in the UK “Sketches For World Of Echo”: Changing Forest & Sunlit Water
    • Full colour insert and liner notes
  • CD 2×CD

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    RT0542CD

    • Includes complete "Sketches For World Of Echo" (originally published in 2020 as a cassette and DL) available for the first time on CD
    • Double CD digipack
    • Full colour insert and liner notes

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“I’d like to play one song,” Arthur Russell begins his 1985 concert entitled Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come In And Out, as if asking for permission, then performs an arrestingly fragile, intimate setlist that no one could have ever said no to. In this concert at Phill Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Russell sketches out tracks that would appear on his foundational World Of Echo, and to listen is to totally get lost in his continuous flow. Dusty cello manipulations rise to a transcendental buzz while his voice remains ever soft and candid in the all consuming distortion, later met with dextrous plucks and popping electronics.

Digital Tracklist

2×LP Tracklisting

The double vinyl LP includes the complete nineteen minute plus version of Tower of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away along with the previously unreleased songs That’s The Very Reason, and Too Early to Tell. Side four includes two instrumental tracks from the previously unreleased in the UK “Sketches For World Of Echo” Changing Forest and Sunlit Water

A1 - That’s The Very Reason
A2 - Tower Of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away From Home
B1 - Happy Ending
B2 - All-Boy All-Girl/Tiger Stripes/You Can’t Hold Me Down
C1 - Introductions
C2 - Hiding Your Present From You/School Bell
C3 - Too Early To Tell

  • from Sketches for World of Echo
    D1 - Changing Forest
    D2 - Sunlit Water

2×CD Tracklisting

"Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out" plus the complete "Sketches For World Of Echo" (originally published in 2020 as a cassette and DL) available for the first time on CD.

Tracklisting:
Disc One: Sketches for World of Echo

Changing Forest
Let’s Go Swimming
They and Their Friends
Keeping Up
Make 1,2
I Take This Time
Losing My Taste For The Nightlife
I Can’t Hide You
The Boy with a Smile On His Face
Sunlit Water

Disc Two: Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come in and Out

That’s The Very Reason
Tower Of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away From Home
Happy Ending
All-Boy All-Girl/Tiger Stripes/You Can’t Hold Me Down
Introductions
Hiding Your Present From You/School Bell
Too Early To Tell

Arthur Russell

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Audika Records

Alternative / Indie / Post-rock

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Ambient and Modern Classical

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1980s

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